linkBacking up your dotfiles/configurations to GitHub

One of the other great uses for GitHub is as a place to back up and share your dotfiles

linkDon't make the same mistake I did! Back up those damn files 😆

There are a variety of ways to back up your dotfiles.

The simplest is to create a repository names Dotfiles on GitHub.

Simply commit and add any dotfiles you wish to back up (e.g your .bashrc or .vimrc or .gitconfig)

linkFurther automate backing up of your dotfiles using a shell script place in your path, or set up as an alias

PLEASE NOTE: This is just one of MANY ways to back up your dotfiles. But this is basic and good for a beginner

linkCreate a .sh file. I call this one mergecheatsheets.sh

1link$#!/bin/bash

2link$

3link$# A script to merge my cheatsheets to my git backup repo

4link$

5link$cp -a /Users/admin/.cheatsheet/. /Users/admin/Git_Downloads/Dotfiles/Cheatsheets/

6link$echo "merging cheatsheets"

linkCreate an alias in your shell to call that shell script

1link$alias mergecheatsheets="~/.cheatsheet/merge-cheatsheets.sh"

linkRestart or source your shell configuration and then run your new command!

linkFinally, head to your dotfile repository and push the new changes to back them up